Britain's aviation heritage suffered a blow when a rare 1948 Auster was partly eaten by Cows over the weekend after landing in a field.

Mike Jones, 66, a former police officer from Bristol, said: "We usually land in farmers' fields, but this is the first time something like this has happened. When the farmer found out (that cows had eaten the fuselage) he put up barbed wire to protect the plane from further damage, but the cows broke it down to eat some more".

Is it evidence of Lovelock's 'Gaia Theory' in action?;
with 'nature' fighting back to introduce balance into the environment by 'natural attrition' against the man-made intrusion into the Bovine environment.